If not for the groundswell of support from the people of Geneva after the search process was exposed, our city likely would not be so fortunate to be celebrating the hiring of a highly qualified and deeply respected woman, Sage Gerling. While Sage’s appointment represents an exciting and important change at City Hall, City Council still needs to explain how two other candidates with serious questions about their professional pasts came so close to being hired until the community stepped in to right the ship.